GENERAL CABLES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 36, 11 February 1913, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES.

WORKHOUSE BURNT. (Received 8.35 a.m.) London, February 10. The workhouse at Fredecar was burnt. Four hundred inmates were asleep at the time of the outbreak, but all escaped. Several of the officials were injured. NATIVE REBELLION QUELLED. Lisbon, February 10. Ihe native rebellion at Mozambique has been quelled. Two hundred natives were killed and five hundred wounded. The Portuguese loss was twenty-five. SYNDICALISM. London, February 10. Lord Armstrong’s son, defending syndicalism, says that we have gradually arrived at a state of society wherein there is no monarchy and no peerage, only “government by the fattest. How,” he says, “can a man lead a clean life on 8s 6d weekly, and support a family? What excuse is there for coal companies’ 40 per cent, dividends, or. the Elsewick Yards’ dividends running into double figures?”

FIRE IN CONSTANTINOPLE. Constantinople, February 9. Two hundred houses were burnt, along with an arsenal, in the foreign quarter. Bluejackets helped to extinguish the outbreak, THE SPANISH PRISON SWINDLE. Madrid, February 10. Fifteen members of a gang working the Spanish prisoner swindle have been arrested. GREEK AT CAMBRIDGE. London, February 10. A memorial is being prepared, urging the Senate of Cambridge University to abolish compulsory Greek, and revise and simplify the entrance examination.